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Kazuma Okamoto hit two homers and drove in three runs because the Toronto Blue Jays pulled away for a 7-3 win over the Minnesota Twins on Friday evening in Minneapolis.
Yohendrick Pinango completed 3-for-4 with two RBIs for Toronto, which evened the sequence at one win apiece. Lenyn Sosa went 3-for-4 with a double.
Byron Buxton went 2-for-4 with a two-run homer to guide Minnesota. Ryan Jeffers tallied the opposite RBI for the Twins.
Blue Jays left-hander Patrick Corbin (1-0) allowed two runs on six hits in 5 1/3 innings. He walked one and struck out 4.
Twins right-hander Simeon Woods Richardson (0-5) gave up six runs (4 earned) on 9 hits in 4 2/3 innings. He walked one and fanned two.
The Blue Jays began the scoring within the second inning.
Daulton Varsho and Sosa hit back-to-back singles with one out, and so they superior on a wild pitch by Woods Richardson. Pinango hit a floor ball moments later, and Twins first baseman Josh Bell fired an errant throw previous residence plate that allowed the Blue Jays to take a 2-0 lead.
The Twins pulled even at 2-all within the third.
Brooks Lee led off the inning with a single, and Buxton adopted two batters later with a house run simply previous the wall in left discipline. The shot was Buxton’s fourth residence run previously 5 video games and his ninth of the season.
Toronto shortly responded to seize a 4-2 lead within the fourth.
Okamoto put the Blue Jays on prime with a leadoff homer to left. Sosa hit a one-out double and scored the second run of the inning on Pinango’s single to middle.
In the fifth, Okamoto struck once more, this time with a two-run homer that elevated the Blue Jays’ result in 6-2. The blast gave the 29-year-old rookie from Japan his first profession multi-homer recreation and 7 lengthy balls on the season.
Pinango hit one other RBI single within the seventh to place Toronto forward 7-2.
Jeffers pulled the Twins inside 7-3 on a sacrifice fly within the backside of the seventh.
–Field Level Media